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Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قبوق (ḳabuḳ, “bark, rind, the skin or peel of a fruit, shell”),[1] from Proto-Turkic *kāpuk (“bark, shell”)[2] from Proto-Turkic *kāp- (“to surround”),[3][4] equivalent to kap + -uk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kaˈbuk/
- Hyphenation: ka‧buk
Noun
kabuk (definite accusative kabuğu, plural kabuklar)
- The hard layer over or around something naturally formed to protect it; shell, bark, skin of a fruit, rind or husk.
- Synonym: kışır
- The hard, brown outer layer around bread; crust.
- (medicine) The incrustation over a wound or pimple; scab.
- (astronomy) The outer layer surrounding liquid or gaseous core; crust.
- (zoology) The outer chitinaceous, siliceous, bony or keratinous layer around an animal.
- Synonym: kavkı
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References
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قبوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1433
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kāpuk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*Kāp-”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kabuk”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Further reading
- “kabuk”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN